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The hospital announced Nov. 30, 2012, it was implementing a temporary limited visitation policy due to the high number of flu cases in the area.

That policy prohibited children under age 12 from visiting patient rooms and emergency room patients. Those with respiratory infection symptoms (coughing, sneezing, runny nose or fever) were asked not to visit SMH until their conditions passed.

Those are some of the blights Lancaster City Council members have once again pinpointed as they begin brainstorming their list of top needs for 2013. They also hope to receive more federal funding to help fund some of the much-needed work.

Grazier Rhea of the Catawba Regional Council of Governments spoke during City Council’s Tuesday, Feb. 12, meeting about grant application criteria and deadlines.

Each word evokes a plethora of emotions, but for the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office each syllable serves as motivation for keeping county roads safer for motorists.

As part of that effort, the sheriff’s office’s newly created DUI Enforcement Team netted more than a dozen arrests and issued several citations and warnings during a two-week period in December, said Sheriff’s Maj. Matt Shaw in a press release.

In 1913, about 40 Civil War survivors gathered at the Confederate Memorial in front of the historic courthouse in downtown Lancaster for a group photograph.

Very little is known about the event, other than the men enjoyed a picnic lunch that day served by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Thirteen of the men there had fought at Gettysburg.
But that photograph has become a part of local history and lore for good reason.

That’s because of the black man seated on the ground in front of the men and one woman who surround the monument.

A trio of University of South Carolina Lancaster students received suspended sentences and fines in General Sessions Court on Monday, Feb. 11, two months after their arrests in an illegal night deer hunting case.

Sixth Circuit Solicitor Doug Barfield said James Christopher Stewart, 18, Ryan Charles Manore, 19, and Blake George Shirley, 18, all pleaded guilty and were sentenced Monday on the charge of illegal night deer hunting, first offense.

“We negotiated a sentence for them and each of them got the same sentence,” Barfield said.

Discovery School students are discovering the food, arts and traditions of Japan, thanks to the help of the school’s new intern, Ayumi Kanazaw.

Kanazaw, 21, a third-year international relations major at Nihon University, is the latest Japanese student to take part in a long-running internship program between the university and Discovery School.

CHESTERFIELD – Two people were taken to a regional hospital and one man was arrested Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly shot them outside the Chesterfield County Courthouse parking lot.

The Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Department reported Curtis Gorney, 54, of Cheraw, allegedly shot 21-year-old Olivia Weaver and her stepfather, Donnie Nolan, from a pickup truck, then sped away. Weaver and Nolan were taken to a Florence County hospital with wounds described as non-lifethreatening.